maaya review

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Movie Details Cast: Harshavardhan Rane, Avanthika Mishra, Sushma Raj, Naga Babu, Jhansi etc Story, Screenplay, Dialogues, Direction: Neelakanta Music: Shekar Chandra Camera: Bal Reddy Editing: Naveen Nuli Producers: Madhura Sreedhar Reddy, MVK Reddy Date: 01-08-2014 Movie Rating Director Rating (25 points): 12.5 Music Rating (25 points): 12.5 Artists Performance Rating (25 points): 12.5 Production & Other Technical Rating (25 points): 12.5 Total ( Out of Hundred ): 50 / 100 = 2.5 / 5

Movie Story

Meghana (Avanthika Mishra) works at TV 21 channel as journalist. She has a rare quality of extra sensory perception with which she can sense future and past?s unhappened and unseen incidents. Meghana foresees her mother?s death few minutes before it happens. Now, Meghana is glad living happily with caring dad (Naga Babu). She meets a famous fashion designer Siddharth Varma (Harshavardhan Rane) arrives in city to make a documentary fashion show on Telugu traditional costumes.

A romantic chemistry develops between Siddharth and Meghana and this is spoiled with Pooja?s (Sushma Raj) entry. Pooja is Siddharth?s girlfriend and incidentally childhood friend of Meghana. Since then, Meghana keeps avoiding Siddharth. 

Accidentally, Meghana?s ESP takes her into past and future incidents of Siddharth Varma. Past is Siddharth?s former girlfriend Anjali killed in a bath tub and police closed the FIR claiming it an accident. Future is Siddharth going to kill Pooja.

How Meghana reacts sensing these shocking facts about Siddharth Varma? Did he really kill Anjali? Will he execute Pooja?

Movie Advantages 1. Unique Story 2. Thrills in second half 3. Cinematography 4. Performances from artists

Movie Drawbacks 1. Bad treatment 2. Neelakanta making standards 3. Predictable twits 4. Poor chemistry between lead pair 5. Pathetic climax 6. Script loopholes 7. Songs placement

Analysis

Artists Performance:

Harshavardhan Rane: He has too many shades to get you irritated. His suspicious behavior at times is head aching. A soft character behaves abnormally at times for reasons best known to director. Harshavardhan acted in several Telugu films and he is also venturing soon into Bollywood but he performed like a newcomer.

Avanthika Mishra: She looked good and performed well. Her dialogue delivery is so weak and ?Devudaa? she made the romantic track narration so boring.

Sushma Raj: She got a bubbly character and to demonstrate that she was seen jumping in entire first half. Thankfully, director asked her to control this jumping in second half as story runs into serious atmosphere. She is much better compared to Avanthika acting wise.

Jhansi is okay and Nagababu, Nalla Venu didn?t get much to perform.

Technical Aspects:

Story, Screenplay, Direction: ESP or sixth sense is not new in Hollywood. The concept is still freshly imported to Tollywood. Neelakanta has chosen an interesting story line. Bad execution turned this as awful. Science thrillers should race on fast pace and thrill audience regularly with incessant twists. Maaya is predictable because of wrong narration. Further, the story runs at slow pace like a TV serial.

First half of the movie is wasted and second half last 30 minutes had better content to convey. Dilaogues are fine. Neelakanta?s choice of actors was mediocre and at least he should have extract performances from them.

Cinematography is the big asset and editing is not up to mark. Not a single song is hummable and placement was wrong. Background score is average. Sreedhar Reddy of Madhura can be praised for believing in the script. Overall, Maaya has very few magical moments.

Movie Result: Below Average

Movie Punchline (Movie Talk): Magical Last 30 Minutes